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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 1
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now God chargeth them, that they had been a snare on Mispah, and a net upon mount Tabor. According to some these mountains are taken senechdo•hically, that is, for all high places, and these Metonymically, for all their superstition and Idolatry committed upon those high places, and then the Expos. 1 meaning is this, Your Idolatry upon these high places hath been a net and a snare to the people.
Now God chargeth them, that they had been a snare on Mispah, and a net up•n m•unt Tabor. According to some these mountains are taken senechdo•hically, that is, for all high places, and these Metenymically, for all their superstition and Idolatry committed upon those high places, and then the Expos. 1 meaning is this, Your Idolatry upon these high places hath been a net and a snare to the people.
Expos. 2 But I think rather the sense to be Metaphorical, thus, These mountains were places very delightful, and places where was much hunting, and the Gentry of the kingdom took much delight in hunting in these mountains, and there they were wont to spread their nets and set their snares for fowls and beasts. Now saith God, You have been a snare on Mispah and a net upon Tabor, that is thus; Mispah and Tabor are two mountains where there is much hunting for fowl and beasts, and the truth is, you watchmen and other people that join with you, have been huntsmen that have laid snares for the souls of my people as they lay snares on Mispah and Tabor; because they were eminent places for hunting, therefore God chargeth them for laying snares for the souls of his people, and hunting them and catching them in their ways of superstition and Idolatry. The Gospel is called a Net in the Scripture, and the Ministers of the Gospel are to spread it, but the cords and twists of that net are precious, they are the blessed truths of the Gospel, the mysteries of the Gospel, and happy are those that are caught in that net: But the net of superstitious Priests and Governors it is made of other manner of stuff, they have their nets too that they spread and catch the souls of the people in. And the net that is here meant they had to catch the souls of the people (for at the first,